Ok thanks Catfight,

I just finished squeezing all the ball links with pliers and that really loosened everthing up nicely. The swash now levels itself when the sticks are at neutral and there is no more servo hum. Sucks about your crash, but sweet $20 will fix it! THat is one reason I decided on the Trex, cheap and easy to get parts. So I am assuming that you take off in normal mode right? Then hit the idle up just after take off? Do you have it set so you have to be pretty quick dropping the collective when you flip the switch or is your stick position for both modes the same for a hover? I only flew idle up once on my Dragonfly 36 and when I flipped the switch it really climbed in a hurry. Just trying to get an idea of the realationship between the curves in idle up and normal modes as I am still fairly new to this game.